Dictator Musharraf badly damaged Pakistan: Assassination of Benazir, 26/11 attacks in India and the US Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama in Abbottabad. But he believed he was a democrat.
Modi govt's Kashmir policy has been a success in changing status of state & redefining what remains negotiable. To expect it was going to end terror & alienation was wishful thinking.
Global order is in flux, and India is being wooed by all. It opens up economic, strategic & military possibilities unimaginable till recently. It is for India to take this opportunity.
That temples were destroyed and mosques built is undisputed history. The past can’t be changed, but we can’t deny the wrongs of the past either before we consider reconciliation.
Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.
Non-BJP chief ministers are retaliating. If Centre can use its agencies to threaten, intimidate and jail its rivals, so can they. The fightback has become an established pattern and will get more intense.
BJP’s dominance has crushed political skills and imagination of its rivals into rubble. It’s made them Islamophobic in that they’d rather not identify with Muslims in any visible way.
Sainik Farms in Delhi was once a vast green lung. It was first discovered by an army of retired generals, and later, a whole panoply of the capital’s smash-and-grabbers.
Can we aspire for moral stature if we respond to criticism with prickliness? The partisan would cheer, but it doesn't mean we lose ability to look within. Or stop listening to friends.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
Now what? India’s Balakot attack was less about the terrorists and more about signaling that India will cross the International boundary. They missed that lesson.
Now – after an intense slugging match, they will count scores. Punjabi bravado will be on full display. But the point that India widened the retaliation to ALL Pakistan airbases will be missed. Ceasefire unfortunately will only strengthen the warmongers in Pakistan!
Here comes the paki loving fake news peddler coupta again..no one gives a flying fuck about your jihadi buddies in pukidtan couptaji. Just flatten them out and move on
This guy speaks like RSS agent … Terrorism in kasmir is product of BJP … He hiding basic fact
You are one of the terrorist
Now what? India’s Balakot attack was less about the terrorists and more about signaling that India will cross the International boundary. They missed that lesson.
Now – after an intense slugging match, they will count scores. Punjabi bravado will be on full display. But the point that India widened the retaliation to ALL Pakistan airbases will be missed. Ceasefire unfortunately will only strengthen the warmongers in Pakistan!
Asim Munir is thinking about his country’s begging bowl.
Here comes the paki loving fake news peddler coupta again..no one gives a flying fuck about your jihadi buddies in pukidtan couptaji. Just flatten them out and move on
He has risked war for sure. Unfolding all around us now.
Is it just Munir or is it China? It’s impossible that china is not involved in this in some way.